From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change background color when running emacs -nw Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:35:21 +0200 Message-ID: <877gfofz5i.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376469367 18128 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 08:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:36:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 10:36:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYp-0002Ha-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:36:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYo-00016W-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYS-0000mF-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYJ-0007aP-4W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYI-0007a3-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9WYH-0001wo-5S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:35:33 +0200 Original-Received: from g231226251.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.226.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:35:33 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231226251.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:35:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231226251.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mrPQlxgvjtPMxeVc4LrrD3mazOU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92874 Archived-At: Lalit Saraswat writes: > Hi, > > I am running emacs in no window mode. but emacs dont take konsole's > background color. > How can i change the background colour to white or whatever used by konsole. doesn't something like ,-------------------------------- | $ emacs -nw -fg wheat -bg black `-------------------------------- work? > Also how can i access Menu items like file/edit/buffers etc in no window > mode. maybe with ,---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | runs the command menu-bar-open, which is an interactive compiled Lisp | function in `menu-bar.el'. | | It is bound to . | | (menu-bar-open &optional FRAME) | | Start key navigation of the menu bar in FRAME. | | This function decides which method to use to access the menu | depending on FRAME's terminal device. On X displays, it calls | `x-menu-bar-open'; on Windows, `w32-menu-bar-open' otherwise it | calls `tmm-menubar'. | | If FRAME is nil or not given, use the selected frame. `---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- cheers, Thorsten